PAUL Hollywood thinks Prue Leith’s accidental announcement of the Bake Off winner lost the final viewers (but he forgives her), he’s still cross at the accusation that he betrayed the show by moving to C4 while “the girls abandoned it” and says Simon Cowell’s gone soft.

Related articles

They say you should never work with children and animals, which was the case for Holly Willoughby yesterday.

What started out as a fun segment about I’m A Celebrity... on This Morning, ended with a 14-foot python wrapped around the celebrity’s leg, as co-host Phillip Schofield looked on helplessly.

Initially Holly, 36, told viewers: “I didn’t mind snakes too much.”

However, things quickly turned bad when the huge python tightened its grip. Two animal experts waiting in the wings stepped in after she screamed and asked: “What do I do? I don’t know what to do. Can you get it off?”

Afterwards, Holly explained: “That made me panic a bit.”

The show was also besieged by technical problems with ITV bosses apologising after the show went off air for 12 minutes.

Holly added: “I blame the snake.”

REX

Holly Willoughby and Philip Schofield had a 14-foot python wrapped around them on This Morning

This Morning blunders

Wed, December 6, 2017

When live TV goes horribly wrong: Take a look at Holly and Phil's best This Morning blunders.

On the subject of I’m A Celebrity, Boris Johnson’s dad Stanley will win the latest series – at least according to his close friend Mike Read.

The 70-year-old DJ was a contestant in the third series of the ITV show in 2004 and says of his sometime tennis partner: “I definitely think he will win. He’ll adapt very well. He’s quite a diplomat but his own person, so I think he’ll be perfect. He’ll be a lot of fun and a great contestant.”

And he adds that he was rather surprised when the 77-year-old became a contestant.

“Charles Spencer, Stanley and I were fixing to have lunch together this month and Stanley emailed to say, ‘I’m in New Zealand chasing albatrosses’.

"So he must have just hopped over from New Zealand. When news broke he was taking part, I sent him an email saying the secret is out!"

PA/GETTY

Mike Read thinks his friend Stanley Johnson has got what it takes to win I'm A Celebrity 2017

Diva Diana honoured with Lifetime achievement award

Disco diva Diana Ross still reigns Supreme after being honoured with a Lifetime Achievement gong at the American Music Awards.

And it was very much a family affair for the 73-year-old who was joined on stage by her four grandchildren as she belted out her hit Ain’t No Mountain High Enough at the Microsoft Theatre in Los Angeles.

The glamorous granny who rose to fame in the 1960s as the lead singer of The Supremes before embarking on a phenomenally successful solo career selling more than 100million records even got a message from a former US president.

Barack Obama and his wife Michelle popped up in a surprise video recording, paying tribute saying: “People from the age of eight to 80 know every word of Diana’s songs and her artistry resonates with folks of every race, background and walk of life.”

GETTY

Diana Ross was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement gong at the American Music Awards

Harry Styles takes the stage with ex-girlfriends at the Victoria Secrets show

Spare a thought for Harry Styles whose exhausting promotional tour for his debut album Sign Of The Times saw him make a quick pit stop in Shanghai to perform at the Victoria’s Secret lingerie fashion show... as one does.

To make matters worse the former One Directioner, 23, had to come face-to-face with not one but three of his model ex-girlfriends, Sara Sampaio, 26, Georgia Fowler, 25, and Nadine Leopold, 23, all of whom were involved in the annual underwear parade.

It’s a hard life being an international superstar sometimes. Harry, any time you want to swap, do let us know…

GETTY

Harry Styles came face-to-face with three of his model ex-girlfriends at the Victoria Secrets show

[RADIO TIMES]

Micky Flanagan: I don't know what class I am

Last year Cockney comic Micky Flanagan was the biggest-selling comedian in the country thanks to his record-breaking tour An’ Another Fing, which played 12 nights at London’s O2 arena.

But his massive success and healthy bank balance has left him confused as to which social class he belongs to.

“If you leave your class, which one of them do you join? Because I don’t want to join anybody’s,” says the 55-year-old who grew up on a Bethnal Green council estate.

And the former Billingsgate Market porter adds of his class crisis: “It’s quite obvious I’m not solidly working class anymore. But there’s no way in a million years I want to be recognised as middle class or upper middle class. Can you think of anything more horrific?”